Senior Creative Designer at 1000 Epiq Systems, Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas

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It's fun to work at a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!

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Senior Creative Designer/Senior Graphic Designer

Job Summary: 

Epiq is looking for a Senior Creative Designer/ Senior Graphic Designer who will be responsible for building a strong brand identity across the global organization and executing creative graphic design elements. 

In this role, you will define requirements, design, and develop creative assets across a wide range of digital and print content to crisply convey our message.

Working closely with professionals across the organization, we will look to you to interpret, guide, and guard unified brand guidelines.

Responsibilities:

•    Work with professionals across Epiq taking direction from written or spoken ideas and convert them into images, layouts, and other designs. Actively and efficiently provide recommendations for how to translate concepts and messaging into compelling visual formats.

•    Prepare layout, design, and artwork for use in digital and print materials. Content will include website and social media graphics, digital and print ads, PowerPoint presentations, videos, infographics, charts, whitepapers, emails, conference exhibits, promotional banners, and other marketing collateral.

•    Manage projects from start to finish while maintaining high quality and providing excellent customer service to internal teams. Absorb feedback to improve deliverables. Participate with Corporate Marketing team to establish goals and KPIs.

•    Understand and protect consistent application of the brand, adhering to brand guidelines on Epiq’s logo, color palette, fonts, and imagery. Build, maintain, and share corporate templates and asset libraries.

•    Prepare layouts for responsive HTML web-based landing pages with form-fill elements and HLML marketing emails.

•    Color correct, process, lay out, and scale photos. Mark them for proper screen values for print reproduction.

•    Manage and maintain image, graphic, and video files. Track and handle copyright, reprint, and permission processes. Ensure inclusion of legal disclaimers in materials as needed/required.

•    Coordinate administrative aspects of production, including preparing final designs, checking and approving color, copy, text format separations, and scaling images for print production.

•    Coordinate with print, event, web, or advertising vendors to determine specifications, recommend formats, and obtain estimates for final approval.

Requirements:

•    Strong business acumen to provide value within a large, dynamic organization.

•    Exceptional presentation and verbal and written communication skills to collaborate efficiently with business leaders and marketers. 

•    Ability to distill complex topics into creative elements.

•    Five+ years of graphic design experience in professional commercial design at a marketing/creative agency or corporate environment.

•    Extensive experience with Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

•    Extensive experience with Microsoft Office: PowerPoint and Word.

•    Working knowledge of CSS3, HTML6, and JavaScript.

•    Excellent layout skills with an eye for adaptive design.

•    Command over mobile first design approach. 

•    High creativity with a strong attention to detail, including spelling.

•    Deadline-oriented, able to manage job board to handle multiple projects simultaneously and negotiate timelines as needed.

•    Oversight of contractor support, as needed.

•    Maintain technical knowledge and stay abreast of trends in design by attending workshops, reviewing professional publications, and participating in continuous learning.

•    Portfolio required.

 

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.  Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.